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Some months ago Natalie Milman, Jason Trumble, and Andrea Harkins-Brown, the editorial team at the Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, invited me to join them in writing a series of four editorials on the grand challenges facing...
“The British Museum is not a good thing in and of itself. It is good only to the extent that its influence in the world is for the good. The collection is a starting point, an opportunity, an instrument. Will the museum use it to...
July 2014 For this walk I was staying at the Blackthorn Farm campsite quite near Holyhead, so I drove to Aberffraw as it was nearer and then took a bus to Newborough, so I could then walk back without worrying about missing the bus, as...
First Mess: L. has been dealing with some work-related nonsense, which I cannot talk about in any detail. What I can say is that it is messing with her head, and that may be the goal of those pushing this nonsense onto her. Neither of us...
A recent study of people (n=57) who were given a small skin prick to induce an inflammatory response found that focusing attention on the discomfort rather than distracting or ignoring it resulted in an improved immune response. Yes, a...
Numbered junctions are a great way to navigate the cycling network in the Netherlands. I have explained how the system works before, but I had never shown how cycling by numbers works in practice. That changes today, with a ride …
django-upgrade is my tool for automatically upgrading your project code for new Django versions. It rewrites your Python files to fix deprecations and adopt some new features, taking a chunk of the monotony out of upgrading between...
I visited Broadway Cinema twice this weekend to see restorations of The Sacrifice and Nostalghia, two films by my favourite director, Andrei Tarkovsky. Somehow, despite going to art school, sitting through plenty of film discussion,...
On my last playthrough I visited Ironforge and hunted don a killer bear. With Dun Morough completed, its nowtime to move to the next zone.
I’m thrilled to see that Reclaim Hosting still runs the DS106 Radio Summer Camp as a light, low threshold way to gather online about as far from a wall of zoom faces as you can get. It was 12 hours of programming you could just spin the...
Here’s a link to the referenced “Steppin’ Out” episode of 100% Whatever, and the “I’ll Be Your Mirror” episode. In both cases the single-song focus is in the third hour. Leave a commentAudio Archive Read more
A note on my 7/14/26 posting “Raunch dressing”, on a Facebook pitch for Creed Fragrance that came by me on 7/12: Aventus by Creed. Bright fruits and smoky woods, crafted into an unmistakable signature Which led to some notes on smoky...
Murphy’s Law strikes: Just before I’m about to leave for the weekly Tuesday happy hour for beer with the neighbors, the synth I ordered arrives. And a day early, too (this is beginning to sound like one of those “My steak is too juicy...